Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.

All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.